Trump has accused Facebook, Google and Twitter Inc of silencing conservative voices and news sources online.
President Donald Trump risks politicising antitrust enforcement and violating the First Amendment should he sign a draft executive order targeting social media companies that’s under consideration at the White House.
The order, first reported Friday, instructs federal antitrust agencies to open probes into the practices of tech giants like Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc. That would challenge the traditional independence of the Justice Department even if investigations were warranted, several antitrust experts said.
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